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Army Selects 10 Firms for Fort McCoy Public Works Construction Services Contract
Ten companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $45M contact from the U.S. Army to provide construction services to the public works department at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin.
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General Dynamics NASSCO Wins Potential $75M USS Arleigh Burke Destroyer Modernization C
General Dynamics has won a potential $74.7M contract to support the U.S. Navy in the dry-docking of the USS Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer.
Army Eyes Iron Dome Missile Defense Tech Procurement
The U.S. Army plans to purchase some Israel-made Iron Dome missile defense systems designed to counter mortar bombs and other incoming threats through the use of small interceptor missiles, Reuters reported Wednesday. “The Iron Dome will be assessed and experimented as a system that is currently available to protect deployed U.S. military service members against a wide variety of indirect fire threats and aerial threats,†the service said in a statement.
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Booz Allen Report Assesses Cyber Threat Trends in 2019
A new Booz Allen Hamilton report that takes a look at cyber threat trends in 2019 says states may employ capabilities related to information warfare to compromise companies and consumers. Booz Allen said in the report that state-linked organizations could identify new applications for internet-of-things botnets and that threat actors might come up with new attack vectors to take advantage of non-WiFi wireless protocols.
Northrop Delivers Updated Mine Hunting Systems to Navy
Northrop Grumman has produced and shipped the first two units of a new airborne technology for the U.S. Navy to detect and counter mines.
Adobe Gets DoD Provisional Authorization for Cloud-Based Managed App
Adobe’s cloud-based managed application secured a Department of Defense provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA said Wednesday the one-year DoD PA certification with conditions allows the Adobe Experience Manager for Managed Services platform to host data at impact level 4.
Iridium Announces Completion of ‘NEXT’ Satellite Network; Matt Desch Quoted
Iridium Communications on Wednesday declared the completion of the $3B Iridium NEXT satellite constellation at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. "The completion of the Iridium NEXT program signifies a new chapter in the Iridium story, one that sees us transforming from a big cash spender to a big cash generator," Iridium CEOÂ Matt Desch said in a statement published Wednesday.
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